Oh you get used to getting up early. Even 13 years after getting out of the military, getting up at 5 am still seems normal.

No kidding I work at 3am everyday and it’s amazing how often I just randomly wake up two minutes before my alarm goes off. I’d say more often than not I do

I don't need an alarm clock either. I wake up 2 pm every day. You get used to it.

There were no phones in that training camp distracting.

​@@edntz yr a warrior

Fact's

Anyone with a brain would have done it, Leon got paid 29 million for that fight

Agreed

Mike Tyson was just too fast and powerful for Spinks. You can see Spinks couldn't maneuver around or even block Tyson punches on time because they were so hard and quick with accuracy.

I used to play a game at work called "Would You?" and it was about what we would do for a certain amount of money, such as, "I just shat in my panties".

@kevinvandorst ...Thank God!

Lmao. Seeing mike tyson in his prime is like WTF, are you joking.

There are no fighters as elusive and defensive as Mike was in his prime while still being aggressive and explosive in power. He had the perfect combination of skills. I believe he could have defeated any of the greats in his prime.

overrated

@@easterbuny2226 In who's book? Edit": Obviously yours

Easy for HIM to say... Cuz Iron Mike was knockin' people out left and right, during his prime! 🥊

@@OtomoTenzi lol !

Discipline!

bro loves the space bar

That's why I've trained daily and have always been ready since I was 13. Ask my 6'2" brother when he was 16.

Tyson Fury didn't get this memo, neither did Big George Foreman.

Tyson was NUTS!!! not mentally....not really....seems like a nice guy actually. But what he had....no one else did. His signature combo, he'd sneak up hit you about 5 times with what sounded like gunshots, and then he was gone. It's why some many fights started and ended so fast. Only a few looked like they knew what to do with him. he was smaller, faster, stronger by a mile and his technique didn't let you throw power at him. It was a marvel to watch and I doubt in my time I'll see the likes of Mike Tyson or Michael Jordan again! It is hard to tell my kids what a monster he was. SO FAST,,,and man....hit like THANOS!!

That’s why he was the best.

That's why he's arguably the greatest ever

heh, I thought they all did that...

Indeed. Mike woke up and had a glass of coke. He then ate a brick of cocaine for breakfast. Then two hours working out, followed by a snort of coke for post workout. Then after recovery from the training, another glass of coke to wash everything down. Repeating that routine day after day is indeed amazing!

Dam U old 😵

I remember playing Mike Tyson's Punch Out for the NES that same day.

I was 8 when this fight happened. My older brother got my dad tickets to watch the fight on the big screen at the Superdome a couple hours away in New Orleans. I still remember my dad talking about how he missed the whole fight: reached to pick up his beer and missed the first knockdown, reached to put his beer down and missed the second knockdown.

I have pretty much the same story except I was 7 I just remember shortly after that fight is when pay per view started charging by the round no longer 59.99 flat rate because Tyson just kept destroying these guys in the first round lol

@@LiquidNorris rumor has it so did Spinks, just so he had an actual chance to beat Tyson.

It is common for Greco-Roman wrestlers. Tyson took this from another sport and included into his marvelous training!!

You damn right; dude was supreme conditioned pit bull. You don’t see that neck on most linebackers.

he regretted his neck training years later

Thats cause him back problems too

@@user-p6-3561 Modern Wrestlers (and Nascar drivers) train their neck differently to avoid the problems the older roman techniques caused. Currently they have use bands wrapped around the side of their heads.

100% TRUTH!!!

well the Tyson that fought Frazier was insane

Thanks to all that Cus had instilled in him prior to his death. Without Cus, Tyson never winds up winning, and is probably in prison his entire adult life.

@@HunteR1199 Yeah, I consider the 86' Tyson on his way to the title to be his absolute peak. He was feeling it in some fights more than others, but he was an animal during his Frazier bout.

This was also his last fight at his peak. He started to cut corners after this. Michael Spinks fight was the last one with Kevin in his corner. No one could reach Mike anymore for the rest of his career.

Jesse Beckwith ...Plywood.

nah, just the usual firing up the animal before the fight!

@@jackson5116 ...According to you.

@@brucescott4261 Ever try to punch through plywood?

how is that even allowed like who has to pay for that

My uncle got up to grab a beer and when he returned the fight was over 😂

That’s how i remember feeling during Tyson’s last win when I was around the same age you were for this fight lol

I personally believe he would have been untouchable at least until the late 90s…don king and that coke ruined what should have been the greatest career of all time

If Cus D'Amato had only been 12-15 years younger and had been able to train/manage Tyson throughout his career, he'd have finished 60-0 (unless he ended up trying to hang on too long and absorbing some losses when he was way past his prime).

Also don't forget that by the insistence of Don King, Mike fired Kevin Rooney, a man that had been a great part of Mike's success and someone who had been trained under Cus, i think if Kevin Rooney had been with Mike his career would've been much brighter, but Don King had to ruin it for everyone.

Most likely not. He was obliterated @ the age of 23 in 1990 prior to going to prison. It was only a matter of time before Holyfield and Lewis. Mike's legacy is tarnished a bit not having faced Ike Bowe Tua Foreman Mercer McCall Moorer Morrison Cooper or even Toney towards the very end.

All these what ifs and excuses are getting rudiculous.

Same I get so into every single one of these that keep coming out. top tier videos

❤

Agreed

this channel was so good before I think youtube started messing with the content creator. Either way this channel is definitely top tier.

His original channel has way more content but my man got screwed up by copyright claims.

Dancing

Bullcrap...you watched another video where the said this was the FIGHT OF THE YEAR....u trying to sound smart but I caught that ass

Good call.

sprinks was the champion

Michael Spinks might as well been a 12 year old boy in there. He was always over rated IMO.

@@drummersinger5324 underrated. The guy was a light heavyweight beating all time great Larry aholmes

I dunno. I was 12 when he first won the title, and I was there for all of the hype around him. But let's be honest, when he was young and knocking all of those guys out, who did he really fight, and beat?? I can list them off for you - Trevor Berbick, Bonecrusher Smith, Pinklon Thomas, Tony Tucker, Tyrell Biggs, a 38-year-old Larry Holmes, Tony Tubbs, Michael Spinks, Frank Bruno, and Carl Williams. Besides old man Holmes, all of those guys were Has Beens or Never Wases. They were what we might call 'Also Rans.' And finally, when Tyson began fighting again, at the age of 29 - hardly past his prime, as people like to insinuate - the heavyweight division was full of excellent young fighters, and guys who were on the cusp when Tyson went to prison. Even though his fans say he was past his prime, in the 90s, that's when he finally fought and beat his most impressive opponents, such as Bruce Seldon, Shannon Briggs, Andrew Golota, Francois Botha, etc. But, when the money was finally on the table for Tyson, and he had to go up against fighters who were of his caliber, or better, he got knocked out. Evander Holyfield took all that Tyson could dish out, for 10 rounds, and finally put Tyson's lights out, with a straight right hand, in the 11th round. And then there was the fight with Lennox Lewis, in 2002. I remember all of the fanboys saying that Tyson was going to destroy him; but at the time, I knew that Tyson didn't stand a chance. Lennox Lewis was 6'5," weighed 235+ and had a right cross that could knock opponents into next week. He's the hardest puncher that I ever saw, and I knew that he was going to embarass Tyson, prior to that fight. It was like George Foreman versus Joe Frazier all over again. Tysons fans like to say that Lewis ducked Tyson, until Tyson was past his prime - neither argument carries any weight - because Lewis was busy fighting everyone who was around, at the time (he literally fought them all, except Bowe, who was terrified of him), and when Lewis and Tyson finally did meet, Lewis was 37, and Tyson was 36. So, it could just as easily be said that Tyson ducked Lewis, until Lewis was almost 40. Both assertions are nonsense.

I used to watch his fights and I didn't have time to get to my second beer before it was over...

You're spot on. He never beat a top-tier boxer. Spinks was a lightheavy who wasn't up for it. Holmes was a fat old man. Tyson only fought journeymen and second-raters. He dodged Lewis and Bowe in the 90s and only fought Holyfield bc he was more his size as an ex-LH/cruiserweight (and lost twice). And that's all before anabolic steroids are mentioned: see Ben Johnson's explosiveness. He eventually fought Lewis but that was bc he'd been cleaned out by King - and then he got humiliated in the ring@@MatewanMassacre

And it's funny that all they know is Deontay Wilder.

wtf are you talking about???@@eddiedevereoxford4995

I'm sure 15 rounds was common for champions fights back then. I seem to remember it getting cut to 12 rounds in the nineties. Though I'm far from an expert on boxing history

Spinks should have been preparing to box not play basketball, I bet he didn't spar or weight train enough.

It was a 12 round fight. Lasted 91 seconds. The last heavyweight 15-rounder title fight was on October 16, 1987 between Mike Tyson and Tyrell Biggs.

@@owencampbell8799 cheers dude

@@ruledtrendy5066 Yeah, the 15 round fights faded out in the late 70's and early 80's after several deaths. I think the last 15 round fight at all was in 1987.

Cap. What do you mean top heavyweights? Tyson only beat 2 top heavyweights of his era

Rooney said Tyson only demostrated 40% of his skills during his fights. We never saw his true potential.

@@alext399 Learn reading comprehension.

@@edntz Coaches usually say a lot to hype up their fighters and Tyson fought a lot of bums so that summarizes it.

There was no greater luxury in Mike Tyson's early life than men he respected who were brave enough to tell him "no". Hard to come by those when you can beat the living shit out of any man on the planet.

He didn’t break a sweat

Tyson's "music" when he came to the ring on the other hand... the best ever!

Get it saved in a USB dude. That vhs won't last forever 👍

You keep videos of rapists? That's weird

​@@megami215he did nothing you clown.

@@megami215you actively sought out this video went to the comments just to reply to it with this?

Spinks did everything in his power to avoid this fight

@@Bestrapperalive_ Yep. He never wanted to fight Tyson, and when the fight was finally made, it was over before it even began.

@@thirteen28 yep he even avoided tony tucker and tucker imo would’ve knocked spinks out making the Tyson fight bigger

Muhammad Ali would be the one.

I think he's about to retire. He's considering a professional pigeon racing career instead

@@megasmashxD Well damn, what a waste of potential

What a great conversation you guys had here 😂😂

​@@j-bonemcswiggans4597 What can I say dude loves his pigeons

None at all. At the time this was hyped as "SuperFight "88." It's hard, now, to believe that any serious boxing fan ever fell for that hype. That fight was over when Tyson hit him with the body shot. As far that the ghost right hand that knocked Spinks out, I think he took a dive at that point. He didn't want any more.

Spinks was and awesome fighter. His demolition of Gerry Cooney and wins over Larry Holmes proved that. For Tyson to win in such a way was a great victory

Not sure if that was my favorite part. or the end where Spinks was asked if he wanted revenge for that fight... "uh, no" lololol

🙄

johnrundle2902 ...False!

Indeed, Holyfield beat a Tyson that was a ghost of himself without questioned...Holyfield would not of handled a prime Tyson.

Spinks didn’t want that heat. He was afraid. But he went into the ring knowing what could happen. The personification of “come back with your shield, or on it.” Respect to anyone who faces Mike Tyson.

In a demanding sport like boxing, you absolutely must have BOTH: natural ability plus crazy work ethic

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